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USAF F-16 Jet Crashes In Germany
August 11, 2015 @ 03:46 PMThe US Air Forces F-16 jet has been crashed in southern Germany on Tuesday morning. The fight plane, assigned to the 480th Fighter Squadron at Spangdahlem Air Base in western Germany, crashed at 9:38 a
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Lockheed Martin To Integrate Sniper ATP On Japanese F-2 Aircraft
August 10, 2015 @ 04:27 PMLockheed Martin has won a contract to integrate Sniper-Advanced Targeting Pod(ATP) onto the Japan Air Self-Defense Force's (JASDF) F-2 aircraft. This initial contract, awarded through Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in 2014, includes a Sniper pod, spares and support equipment for integration
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India's First Hypersonic Cruise Missile To Be Named After APJ Abdul Kalam
August 10, 2015 @ 12:05 PMIndias first hypersonic cruise missile, BrahMos-II will be named after late president Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
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Tomahawk A Contender In US Navy's Next-Gen Anti-Ship Missile Program
August 6, 2015 @ 11:40 AMRaytheons Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) will be a possible competitor in the Navys search for a next generation anti-ship missile to replace the 1980s era weapons in the service. Set to start in Fiscal Year 2017, the contest for the Navys Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare (OASuW) Increment II seeks to replace the Navys decades-old inventory of Boeing RGM-84 Harpoons with more technologically sophisticated weapons
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Saudi, UAE Land In Yemen With Armored Brigades To Fight Houthi
August 5, 2015 @ 03:56 PMSaudi Arabia, UAE have landed two armored brigades and several commando battalions consisting of tanks, armored vehicles fitted with missiles via sea and land at the recently acquired Yemeni port of Aden to fight Houthi insurgents. Saudi, UAE armored brigades consisting of armored personnel carriers Abram M1 tanks and Leclerc tanks, BMD3s, Humvees and mine-resistant, ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles all fitted with short-range ground-to-ground missiles landed at Aden Tuesday
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Lockheed Martin To Produce Eight Production Representative Vehicles
August 5, 2015 @ 01:46 PMLockheed Martins Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) team are planning to produce about eight Production Representative Vehicles (PRVs) over the next few weeks. The PRVs are being assembled to reduce technical risk, optimize the advanced production processes at the Camden assembly plant, and to exercise and prepare the supply chain, the company announced Tuesday
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US Navy Successfully Tests Modified Hellfire Air To Ground Missile
August 4, 2015 @ 12:14 PMThe US Navy has successfully test-fired modified AGM-114L Hellfire missiles as part of its Surface to Surface Missile Module (SSMM). One of the Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) intended Mission Modules, the SSMM is intended to increase the lethality of the Navys growing LCS fleet and is scheduled for deployment in late 2017
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Russia, France Reach Compensation Over Cancelled Mistral Warships' Deal
July 31, 2015 @ 02:05 PMRussia has reached a compensation deal with France for the non-delivery of two Mistral warships after eight months of negotiation. "The negotiations are completely finished, everything has already been decided, both the time-frame and the amount," President Vladimir Putin's adviser for military and technical cooperation, Vladimir Kozhin was quoted as saying by various media today
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Rheinmetall to Supply Canada With Radar Similar To Israel's Iron Dome
July 30, 2015 @ 01:16 PMCanada will be purchasing US$187.2 million worth 10 Rheinmetall's missile defense radar systems that are patterned after Israels Iron Dome
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UAE VVIP Aircraft To Get Four Infrared Countermeasures Systems For $335 Million
July 30, 2015 @ 11:10 AMThe US state Department has approved a US$335 million sale of Four AN/AAQ-24(V) directional infrared countermeasures (DIRCM) systems to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for installation on its VVIP aircraft meant to transport senior political figures. Manufactured by Northrop Grumman, the DIRCM systems are intended to equip the aircraft of the UAEs Head of State, President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan for defending the jet from infrared-guided missiles, especially those fired by man-portable air defence missiles (MANPADS)
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